Raptors Announce 2010-11 Broadcast Schedule

Here's the TV breakdown for those who don't want to count it yourself. TSN will cover 23 games, TSN2 will do 24 games, Sportsnet will do 12 games and the Rogers exclusive Sportsnet One will cover 23 games next season.

TSN and TSN2 will televise 47 Raptors contests across Canada during the 2010-11 campaign. TSN2 has the season opener against Amar’e Stoudamire and the New York Knicks on October 27 from Air Canada Centre. They will also broadcast the first matchup with Kobe Bryant and the defending NBA Champion Los Angeles Lakers on November 5 from the STAPLES Center. TSN2’s schedule also features the first meeting with rising star Kevin Durant and the Oklahoma City Thunder on December 3 as well as two contests against Dwyane Wade and his Miami Heat on January 22 and February 16.

TSN’s schedule is highlighted by its opening broadcast of the season November 13 from AmericanAirlines Arena in Miami when the Raptors make their first visit to face the Heat. TSN will be the home for the only Toronto visit from Bryant and the Lakers on December 19 and road games in Boston (January 7), Orlando (January 21) and Phoenix against Steve Nash and the Suns (March 23).

Rogers Sportsnet and its new national sports channel Sportsnet One will be the home for 35 Raptors regular season games. It will also air a minimum of 35 NBA US regular season contests and have the broadcast rights to 22 NBA playoff games, as well as feature programming NBA Action and NBA XL.

Sportsnet will be the place to see NBA history March 4 when the Raptors face the New Jersey Nets in the league’s first regular season game played in Europe at The O2 arena in London, England. Other marquee match-ups on the Sportsnet schedule include a November 21 Sunday matinee contest versus the Eastern Conference Champion Boston Celtics, the Toronto debut of John Wall, the first overall pick in the 2010 NBA Draft, on December 1 as the Raptors play host to the Washington Wizards, and a road contest against Derrick Rose and the Chicago Bulls on January 4.

Sportsnet One will air both contests versus Dirk Nowitzki and the Dallas Mavericks (December 28 and February 27), Chris Paul and the New Orleans Hornets (January 17 and March 1) and Blake Griffin and the Los Angeles Clippers (February 13 and March 26). Sportsnet One will also televise the season finale against the Heat on April 13 from Air Canada Centre.

For a sixth consecutive season, all 82 Raptors telecasts will be produced by Raptors NBA TV. Veteran play-by-play voice Matt Devlin will call all the action for a third season. He will be joined by Canadian National Team head coach Leo Rautins for broadcasts on Sportsnet and Sportsnet One and “The Coach” Jack Armstrong will lend his expertise as the analyst on TSN and TSN2 telecasts.

The FAN 590 will once again be the radio home for Raptors broadcasts. For a sixth season Paul Jones will handle the play-by-play duties with Eric Smith serving as the analyst.

Rogers can go fuck themselves. it was bad enough when TSN2 came out now this shit, i have expressvu & am very pissed off!! i switched from rogers cause they like to screw there long time customers over & and some how they still find a way to screw us over. these pricks need some better regulations against this type of bullshit cash grab!!!!!!!!!!!

Brilliant Job

Sounds like a well thought out plan to ship over 1 quarter of the televised games to a channel that many Raptors fans cannot even get. Kudos to Rogers and the Raptors for another beautifully strategized move.

Where is the logic in putting the season opener on TSN2?! There isn't a game not on TSN2 or SN1 until November 13. I'll either have to buy the channels, watch them online, or go to a bar for every game I can't watch

I'm tempted to direct a vindictive "Fuck You" at the Raps ownership; it's their fault that networks like TSN and Sportsnet can get away with this shit. Instead of trying to maximize exposure they are trying to maximize profits...eventually there will be NO Raptors games televised in basic packages, and we'll all have to subscribe to garbage fringe channels in order to patronize those bastards...or get used to watching shit-quality, unreliable webcasts.

I have a special cable here. I get 20 channels for football (soccer) and 20 for basketball. You gotta pay, but it's $1 a game, and I can watch ALL NBA games (including Raptors) and it automatically records the game (cause I bought it) so I can rewatch and all. Super cool. Kinda sad, that all the way here I can watch all the games, and you guys need to stream...

i miss the days that games were on FREE channels... you know, the ones the most people watch.. the ones that have the most potential consumers of whatever crap products their advertisers are trying to sell us..

its like pepsi putting up a billboard, but charging people 25 cents to look at it.

SERIOUSLY THOUGH... I've been in eyes only mode this summer but this (of all articles and posts?!?!) warrants a response....

They're trying to make it easy to boycott this franchise this summer! They're definitely making me realize maybe I'm not such the diehard fan I thought I was... I guess I really will be missing over half of the Raptors' schedule this year because I refuse to put extra money in to the pockets of Bell, Rogers and MLSE while getting way less than paid for!!!!! F THAT!!

And I can't believe The SCORE (which presents basketball the best IMO) has ZERO games! Unbelievable....

As someone commented a week or so ago, I'll always be a Raptors follower but in terms of "Fandom" I may have to go Favre style and consider hanging 'em up.